Author: Greg Hatcher

Prior to his untimely passing in October of 2021, Greg Hatcher was a longtime columnist and author and the primary founder of Atomic Junk Shop; all of the other founding contributors were invited by him. His Author's bio at the time of his death follows. Greg has been writing for one outlet or another since 1992. He was a contributing editor at WITH magazine for over a decade and during that time was a three-time winner of the Higher Goals Award for children's writing; once for fiction and twice for non-fiction. Following that, he did a weekly column for Comic Book Resources as one of the rotating features on the Comics Should Be Good! blog for eleven years, before moving on to this current gig at Atomic Junk Shop. He also teaches writing in the Young Authors classes offered as part of the YMCA's Afterschool Arts Program in west Seattle, for students in the 6th through the 12th grade. A fan of pulp fiction ever since he discovered the Doc Savage paperback reprints from Bantam Books in the 1970s, he has contributed a number of action-adventure stories to various 'new pulp' anthologies in recent years. Likewise a lifelong mystery fan, he has also written Nero Wolfe pastiches for the Wolfe Pack Gazette and several Sherlock Holmes adventures for the Airship 27 CONSULTING DETECTIVE series. He lives in Burien, Washington, with his wife Julie, their cat Magdalene, and ten thousand books and comics.

Movies

The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #127: ‘Hexed Weekend’

By Greg Hatcher March 22, 2024 March 16, 2024 itemprop="discussionURL"3

Greg had a Megan Fox Rule?

Books

The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #126: ‘Friday in the YA Library’

By Greg Hatcher March 19, 2024 March 14, 2024 itemprop="discussionURL"9

It’s all about the YA detectives today!

The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #125: ‘And Friday’s Contestants Are …’

By Greg Hatcher March 15, 2024 March 13, 2024 itemprop="discussionURL"5

Greg is going old-school television with this column!

Books, Comics, Movies

The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #124: ‘Cross-Hatchings for Saturday, March 27th, 2010’

By Greg Hatcher March 12, 2024 March 8, 2024 itemprop="discussionURL"7

We all need more exploding dinosaurs!

Books, Comics

The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #123: ‘Another Week of Proto-Comics’

By Greg Hatcher March 8, 2024 March 7, 2024 itemprop="discussionURL"2

More pulpy goodness!

Books

The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #122: ‘A Week of Proto-Comics’

By Greg Hatcher March 5, 2024 March 8, 2024 itemprop="discussionURL"6

Greg only disliked pulp in his orange juice, not in his reading selections!

Books, Comics

The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #121: ‘Cross-Hatchings for February 2010’

By Greg Hatcher March 1, 2024 February 19, 2024 itemprop="discussionURL"5

[This post is from 19 February 2010, and I was able to retrieve it from the Wayback Machine, here. Greg grazes against politics in this column, so of course it …